Browsing: Sleep Health

Medical Myth Busters: Doctor warns late-night scrolling can disrupt sleep, cause fatigue

July 20, 2026 ByMaureen Salamon, Executive Editor, Harvard Women’s Health Watch

We often treat sleep as time taken away from more productive or enjoyable activities. We stay up to finish work, answer emails, watch another episode, or reclaim a little personal time at the end of the day

Article information Abstract Full Text Bibliography Download PDFFigures (2) Tables (1) Table 1. Description of covariates at baseline. Additional material (1) Special issue This article is part of special issue: Sleep Disorders: Innovations in Clinical and Health Psychology, protective factors, risk factors, interventions and relationship with other clinical variables

Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of The Federalist, alongside comedian Joe Machi, passionately advocate for making daylight saving time permanent. Davis humorously claims ‘mornings are stupid,’ emphasizing the desire for afternoon sunlight when more people are awake. Machi highlights the safety and enjoyment of children being able to see in the evening when picked up…

Skimping on sleep leads to weight gain at the rate of one pound (a little under half a kilogramme) every six weeks, a small study suggests

According to a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, regularly missing about 90 minutes of sleep each night can lead to nearly half a kilo of weight gain in six weeks

Fiona Cameron has struggled to get a good night’s sleep for most of her adult life – but none of the medication available in pharmacies helped

It is four in the morning, and the ward is quiet. A junior doctor has been on her feet for nine hours. She is tired, her muscles are sore and her eyes are straining, but when her shift ends at six in the morning and she finally gets home, she struggles to sleep

There is a quote often attributed to author and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.: “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” The human brain is remarkable because it keeps adapting throughout life. It learns, repairs, remembers, and reshapes itself every single day.Yet many people unknowingly…